HALPERIN ALLEGES 4 INSTANCES OF CIA EXPLOITING THE MEDIA
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CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250094-6
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July 30, 2004
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94
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Publication Date:
January 5, 1978
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r~,eesof CIA Exploiting, the Me4iciv
Washington Po i Stair' Writer
In at least ' four instances the Cen
trap .intelligence Agency exploited its
relationship with foreign and Ameri-
can news media to improperly influ-
ence events, and opinions in the
United States, .a noted`CIA critic testi-
fied yesterda
Morton H.; Halperin,, director, of the
Center for National 'Security -Studies,
a' Washington-based organization Grit-
ical. of the, Intelligence; community,
told a House oversight subcommittee
that, among other: things, the CIA
gave a false briefing to a,representa
tive of ' Time magazine on Chilean.
Marxist leader Salvador Allende and
the political situation in Chile around
the time of Allende's election as presi-
dent.
A CIA copy of the briefing paper,
portions of which Halperin obtained
under the Freedom of Information
Act, shows that it argued in considera-
ble detail that Allende and his Chi-
lean Communist Party sought to de-'
stroy the free press there. This Sept.
18, 1970, briefing, Halperin said, con-
sisted of the same information the
CIA was disseminating to its Latin
American sources for use against Al-
lende.
,-,Particularly bb~ectxonable, Ha'Jperin depended on having that same. image 'The. aim of this, dispatch,'" thhee; di
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restive continued, "is to prove
said were personal